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Latin
Etymology
From de- (“from, away from, down from”) + mittō (“send; emit; throw, cast”).
Pronunciation
Verb
dēmittō (present infinitive dēmittere, perfect active dēmīsī, supine dēmissum); third conjugation
- to send or bring down, cause to hang or fall down; drop, flow, shed, sag, let fall
- to sink, lower, put down
- Synonyms: dēmergō, immergō, summergō, mergō, sepeliō, prōcumbō, supprimō
c. 52 BCE,
Julius Caesar,
Commentarii de Bello Gallico 1.32:
- Animadvertit Caesar unos ex omnibus Sequanos nihil earum rerum facere quas ceteri facerent sed tristes capite demisso terram intueri.
- Caesar noticed that the Sequani were the only people of all who did none of those things which the others did, but, with their heads bowed down, gazed on the earth in sadness.
- to cast down, throw, thrust, plunge, drive
- (with se) to let oneself down, stoop, descend, walk or ride down
- (military) to send, bring or lead soldiers down into a lower place
- (figuratively) to cast down, demote; depress, dispirit
- (figuratively) to engage in, enter or embark upon, meddle with
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References
- “demitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “demitto”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- demitto in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to bow one's head: caput demittere
- to take a thing to heart: demittere aliquid in pectus or in pectus animumque suum
- to lose courage; to despair: animum demittere
- to march down on to..: agmen, exercitum demittere in...
Portuguese
Verb
demitto
- first-person singular present indicative of demittir